Sentence examples for purpose of the exercise from inspiring English sources

Does this not defeat the purpose of the exercise?

They were not told the purpose of the exercise.

This, of course, was the purpose of the exercise.

On the contrary, it's the main purpose of the exercise.

It's not the aim, the driving purpose, of the exercise, as it is in the arts.

The purpose of the exercise was to lobby against VAT on newspapers.

Experienced outsourcers emphasise the need to think through the purpose of the exercise.

Is the purpose of the exercise, I wonder, to snigger at what scaredy-cats journalists are?

The respondents questioned the purpose of the exercises and thought it was meaningless and time-consuming to act in a sequential and parallel way during a collaboration exercise.

As indicated through our feasibility study, a warm-up programme suitable as pre-match warm-up should be designed (being shorter and lighter), while an explanation of the purpose of the exercises should be added.

The group interviews also revealed that: (i) an explanation of the purpose of the exercises was necessary; and (ii) the warm-up programme in its current form was not suitable as pre-match warm-up (too demanding).